It was late night ship time, most of the crew sleeping in preparation for the start of the away mission in the morning. Adrian was fairly sure he was meant to be sleeping too. Even after all this time, though, he still tended toward insomnia the night before a mission. So it was that rather than sleeping he was in the shuttle bay, checking over the ( Read more... )

The other shuttles had already started to lift off by the time Adrian - more out of sheer boredom than dilligence - completed his second round of pre-flight checks. He slouched back into the pilot's seat and propped his feet up on the control console. Flight control was a bitch. He completely understood that they liked to have some time between ( Read more... )

Ko was always a little thrown off by how many people were in the mess hall. Humans seemed to be eating all the time, while Dexians ate once every two or three days. He still wasn't quite used to coming here, not least of all because there were so many conversations going on at once. It was one of the loudest places on the ship, and every time he ( Read more... )

It was one of life's great mysteries, Adrian thought, that it was possible to ace every test the Academy threw at trainee pilots and still be completely unable to master a simple racing game. He swore under his breath as he braked too late and smashed into the wall that ran alongside the track ( Read more... )

They dropped out of warp at the edge of the Ravanna system at 10:42 ship time. Adrian would freely admit that he'd been anticipating the moment since he came on shift nearly three hours earlier. The chance to take the ship in on sublights to the coordinates where their Aian escort would meet them was a very welcome one. Caretaking while she was at ( Read more... )

Zan had always liked reading about other cultures' forms of entertainment. He'd been surprised to learn that Vulcans had any, and a little disturbed by how many traditional Andorian games required some form of weaponry ( Read more... )

Adrian awoke warm, contented, and generally feeling that all was right with the world. It was a good feeling. Mind pleasantly blank, he drifted, still not yet quite awake ( Read more... )

Despite the fact that the bridge of the Enterprise was really cool, often brimming with intelligent, brilliant people, and, quite likely, the best damn deck on the ship, a quiet shift there was the worst. At least other places, it was easier to slack off or find make-work projects. Or, better yet, just go bum around and see where help could be ( Read more... )

Jim walked into the gym a few hours after dinner, wanting to burn off some energy and make sure he was fir for the upcoming mission ( Read more... )

Adrian was starting to think he'd been stationed at Utopia Planitia for far too long. He'd got too used to being able to go home to a real bed and real food at night. Not to mention those had been four glorious years in which he hadn't had to do an eight-hour shift at the helm. Helming in transit wasn't in any way difficult, but it had to be the ( Read more... )